Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-05-23
peFsons and PARTICULARS.

liver the address at Mineral Point on
Decoration day
Frank Holloway struck Lancaster
Friday night. He has spent the winter
in the employ of W. H. Hubbard at
North Evanston, and has had the care of
his horses. Frank says Star is fiat and
sassy, and can beat any of the horses
she trotted against last fall farther than
you can shoot a shot gun" Frank
himself is in condition to "gallop with
the herd.
While the family of Bert Adams, who
lives in the southwestern part of Mount
Hope township, were eating breakfast
last Saturday. bolt of lightning de-
molished one of the gable ends of his
house He was slightly stunned by the
shock, but not severely enough to pre-
vent him from continuing at work the
same morning. The loss in his case is
not more than 500. which is also covered
by insurance in Bloomington Farmers
company.
Mr.. A. Kluckhohn an old resident of
Grant county, and for many years a
subscriber of the HERALD was in from
Sitter Friday. He came to Chicago in
1853, when it was city of 400 inhabi
tants. Mr.. Kluckhohn worked on the
first railroad that ran into Chicago. the
Michigan Central, and received ''six
bits day for his service, but as board
was only 81 so week he says it made
it in the end about as things are now.
Record: Lightning struck the house
of Mrs. Stewart, situated about four
miles southeast of this place, during a
thunder storm May IA. The roof was
damaged to the extent of about $50.
but no one was injured. The house was
nearly new, having been built year
ago. Loss covered by insurance in the
Bloomington Farmers company.
Once year letter with S1.50inclosed
comes to the HERALD office from Hough-
ton, Mich, from Mr. VIM Willis, always
with some words of encouragement and
expressions of appreciation. He says in
recent letter that he has taken the
HERALD many years and means never
to be without it. We have a great
many such subscribers, and their words
of praise, like "Epp's cocoa" are
''greateful, comforting" and arouse a
desire stronger than ever that the
HERALD shall always merit their
approval
Record; Collie still continues to kill
horses in this region. Nearly dozen
have died from that disease in West
Grant within thirty days, notwithstand-
ing all the ''sure cures possessed by
different men. As rule the disease
attacks horses that have been we'll
cared tor.
Frank Budd was up with his family
from Plattevile Saturday visiting at
VIM. Robes.
Charlie Baxter writes that he has
situation as clerk in Murse's dry goods
store in Omaha, one of the largest es-
Establishments in the West, in which are
employed sixty clerks.
MARROW Kidd with his wife and chill
dren came up from Glen Haven last
Thursday and visited the family of l..
H. Boughton.
Halle Kinney has left his situation as
clerk in Thomas 81 Basford's and is
learning to be dentist with DR.. John
Reed. He has already got so he sweeps
out the office tirst-rate, and will soon be
able to draw tooth-and a salary.
Joe Nathan says if we do not have
destructive hail storms or some other
unusual disturbance of nature, Grant
county will have better crops this year
than we have had for twenty years
Z. Willard, the superintendent of the
county farm, says he has the largest and
best field of corn in the county, some
thing over sixty acres. VIM. Westing
has one nearly as large, and in both the
corn looks rs well as could be desired
Mrs. Dillon. we are sorry to state. is
worse again, and has written for her
son.